#ecopessimism

That Claudio Kulesko refers to nature as "the most abused and detested category of the modern era" in his book "Ecopessimism" seems very apt. In modernity, "nature" insofar as we recognise it at all feels sublimated to the human everywhere, from conservatism to radicalism. That idea of "Nature" as existing entirely in dependence of human construction (as seems to be the heritage of "social ecology") actually seems as though the ultimate sublimation of Nature into the Human, a grand amnesia with respect to eons of matter, untold time before the first conversation between sentient beings. Yet no matter how radical a human is, few humans can truly help it. To an extent, all of us contemporary humans can be seen as "products of our time", in the exact sense that the world we immediately live in consists almost entirely of human construction.